Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography Research Articles

Provably secure optimal homomorphic signcryption for satellite-based internet of things

Satellites have long been reliable and widely used mediums for communication. With recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT), satellite-based IoT has emerged, enhancing global connectivity by enabling real-time communication between remote sensing devices and central hubs through satellite links. However, secure and authenticated communication between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and resource-constrained ground devices remains underexplored. This paper introduces a novel homomorphic signcryption scheme designed for satellite IoT environments. Our scheme employs hyperelliptic curve cryptography and homomorphic encryption to facilitate the privacy-preserving transmission of aggregated data from multiple IoT devices to LEO satellites. We benchmark our homomorphic signcryption scheme against several established schemes tailored for different network environments, including for satellite networks, Identity-based Signcryption for Smart Grids, 3-Factor Authentication schemes and heterogeneous Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) encryption schemes. Our scheme demonstrates substantial improvements in computational efficiency, communication overhead, and storage capacity. It reduces computational costs by 90% to 99%, communication overhead by 41% to 92%, and storage demands by 62% to 93% compared to existing methods. These quantitative findings demonstrate the practical viability of our approach for satellite IoT deployments with limited resources. Additionally, the robustness of our approach is confirmed through formal security validation using BAN Logic and Scyther, which verifies its strong security, optimal performance, and privacy preservation capabilities, making it ideally suited for real-world satellite IoT systems.

Design of CSKAS-VANET model for stable clustering and authentication scheme using RBMA and signcryption

A public key infrastructure-enabled system authentication model is developed to provide essential security functions for Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). An intelligent transportation system is provided by VANET, an emerging technology. Dedicated short-range communication is used to disseminate messages wirelessly. Communications may be hacked, and messages can be stolen or fabricated. Hence, authenticated communication is crucial in the VANET environment. Some parameters such as trust, authentication, privacy, and security are at high risk. This article suggests a VANET with secure authentication and trust-based clustering mechanisms to provide stable and secure communication. Initially, the Restricted Boltzmann Machine learning algorithm (RBMA) is used to select the cluster head, which depends upon trust, vehicle lifetime, and buffer level. Then, cluster members are formed, followed by grouping. Diffie–Hellman Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography and cryptographic hash functions are used by signcryption for secure communication in VANET. Therefore, the essential component of the key agreement strategy that will give superior authentication is this signcryption mechanism. Over the medium access protocol layer, all of these security characteristics are updated. The proposed method of clustering signcryption key agreement scheme (CSKAS) approach reduces time complexity and increases packet delivery ratio which is vital in providing stable, secure communication.

Enhancing Privacy in the Internet of Vehicles via Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technological paradigm that has gained significant momentum the last decade and, among other features, enables the development of intelligent and interoperable device networks. In this respect, it has triggered the creation and evolution of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), which are initially implemented in order to guarantee the safety of drivers and the avoidance of traffic accidents. The drawback is that this fast evolution comes with serious concerns in terms of the privacy of users, while the population of attackers or entities that try to eavesdrop and intercept information has significantly increased. This imposes a serious risk for drivers moving across a Smart City. The research presented in this paper aims to evaluate privacy protection mechanisms in VANET environments, based on the efficiency and security level they ensure, considering the fact that VANETs provide limited resources to users/drivers. Moreover, the usage of elliptic curve cryptography in reduced resources environments is discussed. Finally, this paper compares the performance of three cryptographic algorithms, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), hyperelliptic curve cryptography genus 2 (HECC-2) and HECC genus 3 (HECC-3), employed for an efficient authentication and safe message transmission mechanism in VANETs, aimed at reaching conclusions related to the implementation of each cryptographic scheme in this specific application area. The evaluation results indicate that ECC supersedes HECC-2 and HECC-3 in most metrics. However, HECC-2 and HECC-3 demonstrate better responses than ECC does in selected energy metrics. Overall, it is observed that HECC algorithms are not yet mature enough to compete with ECC. This is due to the fact that the research community has not sufficiently progressed toward the optimization of HECC, and moreover, HECC builds on quite complex mathematics. There are indications, however, that once HECC curves are indeed optimized, HECC will outperform ECC in speed as well as in other metrics, sinceHECC-2 and HECC-3 use a significantly smaller key size with the same level of security as that of ECC.

Enhancing Plant Disease Classification through Manual CNN Hyperparameter Tuning

Diagnosing plant diseases is a challenging task due to the complex nature of plants and the visual similarities among different species. Timely identification and classification of these diseases are crucial to prevent their spread in crops. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have emerged as an advanced technology for image identification in this domain. This study explores deep neural networks and machine learning techniques to diagnose plant diseases using images of affected plants, with a specific emphasis on developing a CNN model and highlighting the importance of hyperparameters for precise results. The research involves processes such as image preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification, along with a manual exploration of diverse hyperparameter settings to evaluate the performance of the proposed CNN model trained on an openly accessible dataset. The study compares customized CNN models for the classification of plant diseases, demonstrating the feasibility of disease classification and automatic identification through machine learning-based approaches. It specifically presents a CNN model and traditional machine learning methodologies for categorizing diseases in apple and maize leaves, utilizing a dataset comprising 7023 images divided into 8 categories. The evaluation criteria indicate that the CNN achieves an impressive accuracy of approximately 98.02%.

An Efficient and Secure Certificateless Aggregate Signature Scheme for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have become an essential part of the intelligent transportation system because they provide secure communication among vehicles, enhance vehicle safety, and improve the driving experience. However, due to the openness and vulnerability of wireless networks, the participating vehicles in a VANET system are prone to a variety of cyberattacks. To secure the privacy of vehicles and assure the authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiation of messages, numerous signature schemes have been employed in the literature on VANETs. The majority of these solutions, however, are either not fully secured or entail high computational costs. To address the above issues and to enable secure communication between the vehicle and the roadside unit (RSU), we propose a certificateless aggregate signature (CLAS) scheme based on hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC). This scheme enables participating vehicles to share their identities with trusted authorities via an open wireless channel without revealing their identities to unauthorized participants. Another advantage of this approach is its capacity to release the partial private key to participating devices via an open wireless channel while keeping its identity secret from any other third parties. A provable security analysis through the random oracle model (ROM), which relies on the hyperelliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, is performed, and we have proven that the proposed scheme is unforgeable against Type 1 (FGR1) and Type 2 (FGR2) forgers. The proposed scheme is compared with relevant schemes in terms of computational cost and communication overhead, and the results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is more efficient than the existing schemes in maintaining high-security levels.

A Smart Card-Based Two-Factor Mutual Authentication Scheme for Efficient Deployment of an IoT-Based Telecare Medical Information System

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the telecare medical information system (TMIS) enables patients to receive timely and convenient healthcare services regardless of their location or time zone. Since the Internet serves as the key hub for connection and data sharing, its open nature presents security and privacy concerns and should be considered when integrating this technology into the current global healthcare system. Cybercriminals target the TMIS because it holds a lot of sensitive patient data, including medical records, personal information, and financial information. As a result, when developing a trustworthy TMIS, strict security procedures are required to deal with these concerns. Several researchers have proposed smart card-based mutual authentication methods to prevent such security attacks, indicating that this will be the preferred method for TMIS security with the IoT. In the existing literature, such methods are typically developed using computationally expensive procedures, such as bilinear pairing, elliptic curve operations, etc., which are unsuitable for biomedical devices with limited resources. Using the concept of hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC), we propose a new solution: a smart card-based two-factor mutual authentication scheme. In this new scheme, HECC’s finest properties, such as compact parameters and key sizes, are utilized to enhance the real-time performance of an IoT-based TMIS system. The results of a security analysis indicate that the newly contributed scheme is resistant to a wide variety of cryptographic attacks. A comparison of computation and communication costs demonstrates that the proposed scheme is more cost-effective than existing schemes.

HCALA: Hyperelliptic curve-based anonymous lightweight authentication scheme for Internet of Drones

A drone is often called an ”Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” or UAV. It is utilized in various civilian and military applications, including agriculture, surveillance, and delivery of packages. A promising idea for enhancing the safety and quality of drone flight is to build the Internet of Drones (IoD), in which drones are used to collect sensitive data, which is then communicated in real-time to external user (Ui) through the Ground Station Server (GSS). Before deployment, the GSS and all drones are registered with Control Room (CR), a central authority, which is a trusted authority. To ensure secure and reliable communications, an efficient and secure authentication scheme is needed to enable users and drones to authenticate each other and share a session key. Furthermore, because drones generally have small batteries and limited memory capacity, efficient and lightweight security techniques are suitable for them. Many schemes to secure IoD environments have been proposed recently; however, some were proven as insecure, and some degraded efficiency. In this work, we focus on developing a novel blockchain-based authentication scheme, called HCALA, on protecting the communication between an external user and drone utilizing Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC). To evaluate the viability and efficacy of HCALA, We employ the extensively used Random Oracle Model (ROM) and formal security verification using a software tool called AVISPA, which is used to validate the internet security protocols. HCALA is also examined by utilizing informal security analysis techniques, demonstrating that the proposed protocol can withstand several well-known active and passive adversary attacks. It also shows that HCALA is more efficient regarding different parameters, according to the performance comparison. Compared to previous similar schemes, the security and functionality aspects are improved, and the computation, communication costs, and energy consumption are reduced.

Dynamic Secure Access Control and Data Sharing Through Trusted Delegation and Revocation in a Blockchain-Enabled Cloud-IoT Environment

The Internet of Things (IoT) is vulnerable to leakage of private information during data sharing. To avoid this problem, access control and secure data sharing have been introduced in IoT; however, many challenges are faced because of centralized access control and single delegator selection. Additionally, blockchain is integrated into IoT to enhance the security of the environment. For that purpose, this research proposes dynamic secure access control using the blockchain (DSA-Block) model, which performs secure access control and data sharing. Initially, the IoT device attributes and user attributes are registered at a local domain authority (LDA) for generating private and public keys using the hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC) algorithm, which ensures the legitimacy of the users and devices. Then, the IoT devices send a request message to the edge nodes (ENs) via a gateway, which performs request filtration by validating the user’s authenticity. The filtered requests are sent to the edge server to perform access delegation using rock hyraxes swarm optimization (RHSO), which selects a set of delegator nodes. The access control decision is made by using the Trusted practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) consensus algorithm. The IoT data are stored in the cloud server for secure storage, in which the data are secured using a differential privacy mechanism. Finally, dual revocations, such as user attribute revocation and user revocation, are used to maintain security. The performance of DSA-Block is evaluated and the results demonstrate that the proposed DSA-Block model achieves superior performance compared to previous works.

Enabling Secure Communication in Wireless Body Area Networks with Heterogeneous Authentication Scheme.

Thanks to the widespread availability of Fifth Generation (5G) wireless connectivity, it is now possible to provide preventative or proactive healthcare services from any location and at any time. As a result of this technological improvement, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged as a new study of research in the field of healthcare in recent years. WBANs, on the one hand, intend to gather and monitor data from the human body and its surroundings; on the other hand, biomedical devices and sensors interact through an open wireless channel, making them exposed to a range of cyber threats. However, WBANs are a heterogeneous-based system; heterogeneous cryptography is necessary, in which the transmitter and receiver can employ different types of public key cryptography. This article proposes an improved and efficient heterogeneous authentication scheme with a conditional privacy-preserving strategy that provides secure communication in WBANs. In the proposed scheme, we employed certificateless cryptography on the client side and Identity-Based Cryptography on the receiver side. The proposed scheme employs Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC), a more advanced variation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). HECC achieves the same level of security with a smaller key size and a more efficient approach than its counterpart methods. The proposed scheme not only meets the security and privacy standards of WBANs but also enhances efficiency in terms of computation and communication costs, according to the findings of the security and performance analysis.

Efficient Cancelable Template Generation Based on Signcryption and Bio Hash Function

Cancelable biometrics is a demanding area of research in which a cancelable template conforming to a biometric is produced without degrading the efficiency. There are numerous approaches described in the literature that can be used to generate these cancelable templates. These approaches do not, however, perform well in either the qualitative or quantitative perspective. To address this challenge, a unique cancelable template generation mechanism based on signcryption and bio hash function is proposed in this paper. Signcryption is a lightweight cryptographic approach that uses hyper elliptic curve cryptography for encryption and a bio hash function for generating signatures in this proposed method. The cancelable templates are generated from iris biometrics. The hybrid grey level distancing method is used for perfect iris feature extraction for the CASIA and IITD datasets. The proposed approach is compared against the existing state-of-the-art cancelable techniques. The resulting analysis reveals that the proposed method is efficient in terms of accuracy of 98.86%, with lower EER of 0.1%. The average minimum TPR and TNR of the proposed method is about 99.81%.

An Efficient Authentication Scheme Using Blockchain as a Certificate Authority for the Internet of Drones

The Internet of Drones (IoD) has recently gained popularity in several military, commercial, and civilian applications due to its unique characteristics, such as high mobility, three-dimensional (3D) movement, and ease of deployment. Drones, on the other hand, communicate over an unencrypted wireless link and have little computational capability in a typical IoD environment, making them exposed to a wide range of cyber-attacks. Security vulnerabilities in IoD systems include man-in-the-middle attacks, impersonation, credential leaking, GPS spoofing, and drone hijacking. To avoid the occurrence of such attacks in IoD networks, we need an extremely powerful security protocol. To address these concerns, we propose a blockchain-based authentication scheme employing Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC). The concepts of a blockchain as a Certificate Authority (CA) and a transaction as a certificate discussed in this article are meant to facilitate the use of a blockchain without CAs or a Trusted Third Party (TTP). We offer a security analysis of the proposed scheme, which demonstrates its resistance to known and unknown attacks. The proposed scheme resists replay, man-in-the-middle, device impersonation, malicious device deployment, Denial-of-Service (DoS), and De-synchronization attacks, among others. The security and performance of the proposed scheme are compared to relevant existing schemes, and their performance is shown to be better in terms of security attributes as well as computation and communication costs than existing competitive schemes. The total computation cost of the proposed scheme is 40.479 ms, which is 37.49% and 49.79% of the two comparable schemes. This shows that the proposed scheme is better suited to the IoD environment than existing competitive schemes.

A novel communication‐aware adaptive key management approach for ensuring security in IoT networks

AbstractInternet of Things (IoT) encompasses heterogeneous communication devices and wireless technologies to provide ubiquitous access using end‐user devices. It operates on a common website for connecting versatile devices with seamless communication, data access and sharing. Communication through wireless medium requires enormous security features to protect both public and private data across different interconnected resources. Therefore, in this article, a communication‐aware adaptive key management (CAKM) is proposed to ensure two levels of security in IoT communication. The two‐levels of security include both device and message that is facilitated using certificate authority and key management. By exploiting the benefits of hyper elliptic curve cryptography (HECC), the communication‐aware adaptive key management ensures message authentication for the device requests. Initially, the device requests are classified on the basis of its service time and correlated to the time‐to‐live period of the certificate. The proposed method attains low computational time 10.9%, 30.2%, and 54.3%, high security level 10.9%, 30.2%, and 54.3%, high successful message rate 10.9%, 30.2%, and 54.3% and low key agreement time 10.9%, 30.2%, and 54.3% when compared to the three existing methods, such as bilateral generalization inhomogeneous short integer solution (Bi‐GISIS)‐based key management in IoT security (Bi‐GISIS‐IoT), hyper elliptic curve based public key cryptosystem in IoT security (HCCPK‐IoT) and enhanced symmetric key‐based authentication in IoT security (ESKA‐IoT). Finally, the proposed method provides an efficient security with low computational time.

Hybrid cluster made content forwarding and light weight sign encryption IoT based Named Data Network using African Buffalo optimization algorithm

Information Centric Network (ICN) is a newer technology in handling web content distribution that has recently emerged in order to tackle the risk of data security. For handling content distribution, ICN provides data security via a name-based approach. Named Data Networking (NDN) is an ongoing ICN realisation that was incorporated recently. Named Data Networking (NDN) has recently grown in popularity and significance as a new internet design that solves certain limitations in traditional internet communications. NDN is perfectly adapted for the Internet of Things (IoT), which is today dominated by huge, and emerging applications. In this work, we propose an IoT enabled hybrid cluster-based routing protocol with mitigation of content poisoning attack for information-centric Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-NDN. In this method, hybrid K-medoids clustering is used with African Buffalo Optimization Algorithm (ABOA), which is to find an optimal shortest path between the cluster heads, and light weight encryption. It is developed by using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HCC) to mitigate content poisoning. Our proposed system has effective data security as it has encrypted data in the cluster head. The smart health care monitoring system has been used for our proposed method. The proposed method has been subjected to extensive analysis by comparing with other existing methods that should improve performance justified in terms of several metrics by introducing the malicious nodes (10%, 20%, and 30%).

Hyperelliptic Covers of Different Degree for Elliptic Curves

In elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC), the size of cipher-text space defined by the cardinality of Jacobian is a significant factor to measure the security level. Counting problems on Jacobians of elliptic curve can be solved in polynomial time by Schoof–Elkies–Atkin (SEA) algorithm. However, counting problems on Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves are solved less satisfactorily than those on elliptic curves. So, we consider the construction of the cover map from the hyperelliptic curves to the elliptic curves to convert point counting problems on hyperelliptic curves to those on elliptic curves. We can also use the cover map as a kind of cover attacks. Given an elliptic curve over an extension field of degree n , one might try to use the cover attack to reduce the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in the group of rational points of the elliptic curve to DLPs in the Jacobian of a curve of genus g ≥ n over the base field. An algorithm has been proposed for finding genus 3 hyperelliptic covers as a cover attack for elliptic curves with cofactor 2. Our algorithms are about the cover map from hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 to elliptic curves of prime order. As an application, an example of an elliptic curve whose order is a 256-bit prime vulnerable to our algorithms is given.

Light-weight Security Protocol in IoT with Less Computational Cost

Firewalls are the emerging technology to secure the internal network resources from outsider attacks. On the other hand, Authentication, integrity, and confidentiality are the main security challenges for firewalls. To achieve these security challenges, recently, two multicast signcryption schemes have been contributed to the literature. These two Signcryption suffer from two main flaws: computational cost and our head communication. Keeping in view these two flaws, we designed a new multi-receiver signcryption scheme that is lightweight. A lightweight and well-secured protocol is presented for smart-IOT-based homes that are proven to be secured against impersonation, replay, and exposed session key attacks. The Proposed technique is experimented with using the AVISPA tool to ensure that the various attacks do not crack it. The efficiency and security of the proposed scheme are based on a hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem. The hyperelliptic curve cryptography is the subtype of an elliptic curve cryptosystem, and the key size is low from the elliptic curve. Our scheme provides all the security requirements provided by the existing multi-receiver signcryption schemes with low computational and communication costs.

A novel model to enhance the data security in cloud environment

Nowadays cloud computing has given a new paradigm of computing. Despite several benefits of cloud computing there is still a big challenge of ensuring confidentiality and integrity for sensitive information on the cloud. Therefore to address these challenges without loss of any sensitive information and privacy, we present a novel and robust model called ‘Enhanced Cloud Security using Hyper Elliptic Curve and Biometric’ (ECSHB). The model ECSHB ensures the preservation of data security, privacy, and authentication of data in a cloud environment. The proposed approach combines biometric and hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC) techniques to elevate the security of data accessing and resource preservations in the cloud. ECSHB provides a high level of security using less processing power, which will automatically reduce the overall cost. The efficacy of the ECSHB has been evaluated in the form of recognition rate, biometric similarity score, False Matching Ratio (FMR), and False NonMatching Ratio (FNMR). ECSHB has been validated using security threat model analysis in terms of confidentiality. The measure of collision attack, replay attack and non-repudiation is also considered in this work. The evidence of results is compared with some existing work, and the results obtained exhibit better performance in terms of data security and privacy in the cloud environment.

A Cost-Effective Identity-Based Signature Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography

A Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a subset of the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) that allows vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside stations to offer efficient and safe transportation. Furthermore, when VANET is used in connection with the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors, it can help with traffic management and road safety by allowing vehicles to interact with one another at any time and from any location. Since VANET’s event-driven communications are carried out via an open wireless channel, there are significant security concerns. In this paper, we use Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC) to offer a cost-effective identity-based signature for secure communication over VANET. The proposed scheme does not need certificate management, and we found that it is more secure against a variety of cryptographic threats after conducting a thorough security analysis. In addition, comparisons of communication and computational costs are made, demonstrating that the proposed scheme is more efficient in both respects than existing schemes.

A Provable and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for UAV-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems

In this article, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a key role in improving the safety and reliability of transportation systems, particularly where data traffic is nonhomogeneous and nonstationary. However, heterogeneous data sharing raises plenty of security and privacy concerns, which may keep UAVs out of future intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Some of the well-known security and privacy issues in the UAV-enabled ITS ecosystem include tracking UAVs and vehicle locations, unauthorized access to data, and message modification. Therefore, in this article, we contribute to the sum of knowledge by combining the hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC) techniques, digital signature, and hash function to present a privacy-preserving authentication scheme. The security features of the proposed scheme are assessed using formal security analysis methods, i.e., real-or- random (ROR) oracle model. To examine the performance of the proposed scheme, a comparison with other existing schemes has been carried out. The results reveal that the proposed scheme outperforms its counterpart schemes in terms of computation and communication costs.

A Cost Effective Identity-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things-Enabled Agriculture

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized practically every industry, including agriculture, due to its fast expansion and integration into other industries. The application of IoT in agriculture motivates farmers to use their resources wisely and allows for better field monitoring and decision-making, resulting in increased agricultural productivity. Because IoT-enabled agriculture systems need the use of various types of sensors that collect data (such as soil moisture and humidity) and then transmit it over the network. IoT-based agriculture systems, on the other hand, are always vulnerable to security threats. Authentication is one of the assured options for addressing the security concern, since it only enables an authorized party to access the data. Existing authentication schemes typically use the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which has a greater computational and communication cost. Furthermore, the security of the majority of existing authentication schemes is not verified using any security tool. As a result, we propose an identity-based authentication scheme for IoT-enabled agriculture in this article. To ensure that our scheme is cost-effective, we employ hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC). Our scheme surpasses existing authentication schemes in terms of computational cost and communication overhead while providing better security, according to a thorough investigation of performance and security.

An Efficient Multidocument Blind Signcryption Scheme for Smart Grid-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things

The smart grid-enabled industrial Internet of Things (SG-IIoT) is a hybrid data communication network connected with the power grid that collects and analyzes data from transmission lines, distribution substations, and consumers. In the IIoT setting, SG provides predictive information to its supplier and customers on how to effectively manage the power based on this aggregated data. To achieve this goal, every virtual or physical entity in the SG-IIoT must be linked and accessible over the Internet, which can be susceptible to numerous cyberattacks. In this paper, we propose a multidocument blind signcryption scheme to simultaneously resolve the security and efficiency issues. The proposed scheme performs the blind signature and encryption operation on multiple digital documents in one step because SG-IIoT outputs a large amount of data that needs to be blind signed and encrypted in a batch. The proposed scheme employs the concept of hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC), which is lightweight owing to the smaller key size. The comparative analysis in both security and efficiency with the relevant existing scheme authenticates the viability of the proposed scheme.